0:01:32 What’s new with LRIS.0:03:20 Seattle Officers Who Attended Jan 6 Rally Cannot Remain Anonymous, John Does 1, 2, 4, & 5 v. Seattle Police Dep’t, 2025 Wash. LEXIS 86 (2025).0:15:24 Terminated Firefighter’s “Perceived Speech” Claim Triggers First Amendment Protect ions, Vargas v. City of Tra
CHICAGO (WGN) — The president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police said Friday that more than 1,000 officers are using a service weapon that could accidentally discharge, putting themselves and others at risk and opening the city up to legal action.The Sig Sauer P320 is popular with local and fede
SALT LAKE CITY — Police officers in Utah’s capital city are slated to receive a raise through an agreement facilitated before a new state law bans public unions from collectively bargaining.The Salt Lake City Council voted this week to adopt a memorandum of understanding with the Salt Lake City Poli
The Richmond City Council upheld a recommendation to place the newly established Community Intervention Specialist (CIS) position under SEIU Local 1021, rejecting an appeal by the Richmond Police Officers Association (RPOA) that sought to fold the position into its own union. Meanwhile, non-sworn ci
The former executive director of the union representing Oregon State Police troopers and sergeants has agreed to pay $700 in civil penalties for using the union credit card for personal expenses, records show.Darrin Phillips, 58, a former senior trooper who led the union, pleaded guilty last year to
When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a small team of federal health workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.That’s what happened after two firefighters died in California in 2020 while searching for an elderly woman in
Winston-Salem firefighters could lose more than half of their annual time off under a proposal from the City Manager’s Office, triggering strong pushback from the firefighters’ union and raising new concerns about staffing, recruitment and retirement benefits.Continue reading at www.wfmynews2.com
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The city of Pawtucket is upholding its decision to fire four firefighters and accept the retirements or resignations of four others after an internal investigation revealed possible criminal conduct within the fire department.The firefighters’ union, IAFF Local 1261, is pushing bac
Why now: City and department officials say that boost in pay is needed to address what they’re calling a crisis in recruiting — with about 1,000 fewer sworn officers today than three years ago. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass says the invesment is needed “to hire more police officers, expedite the hiring proc
Naperville City Council members have approved a new contract with the union representing sworn police officers.The previous pact between the city and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 42 expired at the end of December.Continue reading at www.dailyherald.com
Firefighters are five times more likely to die by suicide than fighting a house fire.That is according to Lt. Justin Twaddle with the Quincy Fire Department. He said it is often because of trauma sustained on the job.“Any time we respond in an incident where it’s particularly traumatic, especially i
A coalition of businesses and the state’s biggest police union are sparring over a New Jersey law meant to protect prosecutors, judges, and cops by shielding their home addresses and phone numbers from disclosure.Businesses that use data for things like real estate, lending, fraud detection, backgro
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Police Association is calling for charges against staff at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin after they allegedly refused medical care for an officer who wouldn’t remove their firearm.The police union said MPD officers carry department-issued firearms because t
Lori Franchina, a lesbian and retired firefighter, was awarded $1.75 million in her second lawsuit against the city of Providence, Rhode Island. She sued the city after it denied her an accidental disability pension for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) she developed in response to years of homo
Salt Lake City has approved a new labor contract with its police union, fewer than two months before a new law strips collective bargaining powers for public workers.The city’s latest memorandum of understanding with the Salt Lake Police Association, representing police officers, was adopted by the
Mitch Bratton, the chief of police for the Village of Grayson, called the Louisiana State Police to report suspicions that the town clerk was stealing from the town. Louisiana State Police detectives went to Grayson to speak to Bratton and ask him to provide records related to the narcotics fund, b
The Fraternal Order of Police Pennsylvania Lodge, the Springfield Township Police Benevolent Association, and individual police officers Christian Wilbur, Robert Baiada, and Chris Calhoun, challenged a policy enacted by Springfield Township that restricted Township employees from displaying a Thin B
Prior to 2019, the City of Great Falls, Montana had collectively bargained workplace drug and alcohol use and testing policies with all its employees. The existing policy prohibited employee use of alcohol or drugs on city premises or while performing city business, and it allowed for temporary i
The Louisiana State Troopers Association (LSTA) is a labor organization representing over 90% of commissioned and classified state police troopers and a majority of state police trooper retirees.The Louisiana State Police Commission was established by the Louisiana Constitution and vested with br
Mark Meister began employment in a Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) covered position on September 1, 1991, and retired February 1, 2020. On January 31, 2020, for the pay period of January 16 to 31, he received a lump-sum payment for accrued vacation and compensatory time totaling $21,945.0
Sean Fowler and Amber Heidel were corrections officers at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections at SCI-Huntington. In October 2022, while in the lounge area, Fowler repeatedly questioned Heidel about her injured arm, which required surgery. He nagged her about wanting to touch it, despite her
Mitch Bratton, the chief of police for the Village of Grayson, called the Louisiana State Police to report suspicions that the town clerk was stealing from the town. Louisiana State Police detectives went to Grayson to speak to Bratton and ask him to provide records related to the narcotics fund, b
The Ansonia FOP Local 913 brought a case against the City of Ansonia seeking to vacate an arbitration award. The arbitration stemmed from a disciplinary action taken against Detective Jonathan Troesser, a member of the FOP and an employee of the Ansonia Police Department. Troesser had filed an ano
In 2022, the city council for Baker City, Oregon, voted to discontinue ambulance service through the fire department, opting instead to provide only fire suppression services. Casey Husk, a former firefighter employed by the Baker City Fire Department, disagreed with this decision. He pursued recal